Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2013/Attributions and emotion

Heading casing
Note that the Wikiversity convention is for lower-case headings. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:25, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Formatting
Hi :) looks like you've started pasting some research in cool! You're ahead of me ;) I would suggest changing the 'centre' orientation of your page and trying to find some more recent references for your information. Is there much info available about children and attributions? Children are very egocentric and will often shift the blame. Wondering if this has attributional/emotional relevance? Best of luck! PatrickBateman (discuss • contribs) 03:11, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Linking to the book's theme
Hiya!

I am loving what you have written so far! It is all very interesting!! Your request on moodle was actually really good timing as I had a friend ask me yesterday "if you get bad marks on an assignment, does it motivate you to work harder or give up?"

I answered her question by referring to attribution. I basically told her that whether it motivates me to work harder depends on what I attributed the failure to - internal or external attribution. If I went for internal and said I didn't work as hard as I could have, then it would motivate me to study more. However, if I went for external and said the marking was poorly done or something, then I would be more likely to put in the same amount of effort next time.

Perhaps you could use this as a starting point to relate it back to the book's theme? Maybe talking about ways to ensure that attribution is put in the correct place and using that as a means to motivate yourself to try harder?

Best of luck!

Amyr16 (discuss • contribs) 05:24, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey there, here is some feedback after reading over your chapter. Consider re-phrasing the first sentence by removing “in social psychology” and just having “attributions are judgements we make about our environments and the people in them. They are explanations for how we interpret situations and affect how we think about others. During the 20th century, Fritz Heider was among the first to explore this topic…..In your next sentence instead of saying “something” rephrase this sentence. Maybe it could say – he questioned why and how people attributed characteristics to an imagined object such as the smell, colour, texture, shape, size. Just a consideration :) I enjoyed reading your entire chapter it is looking very good! In regards to my post last night, here is a meta-analysis of the ‘cognitive triad’ http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01447664 I did not read through but could be a useful starting point. I hope you can find more articles in a more general sense, it would be interesting to know how changing our attributions could influence our emotion. Hope that helps, goodluck I will come back and read the completed product soon! Rashpocket (discuss • contribs) 23:23, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Focus on attribution and emotion
I've just had a look over the structure which looks reasonable, but I would definitely focus as much as possible on content related to the title/topic - i.e., attribution and emotion and not just attribution. By doing this I think you will also find that you more closely address the self-help type theme as it will help to show cognitions can influence emotion. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:00, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Related to the above, does the cartoon really address the central topic/theme? If not, then perhaps it warrants being smaller and presented within the section that it is most closely relates to. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Self-serving bias
Hey Kellie! I just put some info in about self-serving bias, its not written very well though I think its a good starting point for this section. I have put the references in your reference list too. Goodluck with the rest of your page! --3069576 (discuss • contribs) 00:17, 28 October 2013 (UTC)